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According to the World Health Organization, Germany's health care system was 77% government-funded and 23% privately funded as of 2004. [8] In 2004 Germany ranked thirtieth in the world in life expectancy (78 years for men). Physician density in Germany is 4.5 physicians per 1000 inhabitants as of 2021.
Health in Germany. Germany ranked 20th in the world in life expectancy in 2014 with 76.5 years for men and 82.1 years for women. It had a very low infant mortality rate (4.3 per 1,000 live births ), and it was eighth place in the number of practicing physicians, at 3.3 per 1,000 people. A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 ...
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Germany began on 26 December 2020. [2] As of 16 December 2021, 60,679,186 people have received at least one dose (73% of total population), while 58,174,724 people have been fully vaccinated (70% of total population). [3] And as of 8 April 2023, 63.6 million people (76.4% of the total population) received ...
By Ludwig Burger. FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's health ministry has no plans to change a law that prevents the health insurance system from paying for weight-loss drugs, it said on Tuesday ...
Most COVID-19 patients in intensive care in German hospitals aren't vaccinated, data published on Thursday indicates. The data from Germany's intensive care association DIVI showed that 62% of ICU ...
The population in need of care is expected to increase from over a million to over 2 million people in 2020, which is about 2% of the population in Germany. 70% of the people, who are elderly and in need of care, live in private households, with a family member being the main caregiver in 80% of these households; daughters and daughters in law ...
192,221,468 [3] (doses administered) The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany has resulted in 38,437,756 [3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 174,979 [3] deaths. On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. [5] By mid February, the arising cluster of cases had been fully contained. [6]
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